A Bitter Enemy

I read this book for two reasons: because I loved the rest of the series and I am doing a school report on it. Arch Enemy is a great book, as is my review...

Arch Enemy
By: Frank Beddor

A Review by: Chase Pixley

All imagination is gone from Wonderland thanks to King Arch of Borderland’s Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation, or WILMA. Queen Alyss Heart is barely holding on to the throne of Wonderland while one of Wonderland’s four founding families, the Clubs, are believed to be responsible for the disappearance of imaginationists throughout the kingdom.
Milliners Hatter Madigan and Homburg Molly, on top of Talon Point grieving for the loss of Weaver, Hatter’s wife and Molly’s mother. As father and daughter returned to civilization the blue caterpillar oracle gave a prophecy to Molly: you. At the same time, while spying on an anti-imagination meeting she and guardsman Dodge Anders are captured and trapped in “limbo coops”, or tiny holding pens for imaginationists. Meanwhile, Redd Heart and her top mercenaries were turned on by Arch and became fugitives from Borderland’s king.
Can these groups put aside their former hate and work together to reclaim Wonderland? How does Alyss truly feel about Dodge? And, most importantly, who is the fabled “Everqueen”?
The final book in the trilogy, it deserves a place on the shelf of Classics right there next to the original “Alice in Wonderland”. There is never a stop in the twisting mysteries, the stunning betrayals, or the breakneck pace. This is the perfect ending to the trilogy. Though this story is great, you may want to begin with the heart-stopping book “The Looking Glass Wars” also by Frank Beddor.